I Was Kidnapped!!!!!

Today was much better than yesterday. In fact, yesterday got much better after dinner. Kim, John and I went to the mall and well, went kinda crazy. It was so much fun to just let loose and not worry about anything or anyone. I didn't think about homework or what people were thinking. It was just pure fun.

We went to Pottery Barn, and I sat down at one of the desks where it's set up to show you how your desk could look like if you were rich and shopped at Pottery Barn. Anyway, I picked up the phone that's sitting on the desk and a little boy (maybe 3 years old) walked up to the desk and looked at me, so I said, "Do you have an appointment?" and he just looked at me like I was crazy. Then he said he wanted to play with the phone, so I handed him the phone and he tried to dial it and "talk" to the person on the other end, but he looked at me and said, "No one answered," so I told him that they must be at lunch. I also, at some point, asked him if he brought a resume, and what preschool he went too before his father dragged him away. It was too much fun!

Also at the mall 2 gay guys hit on John. Good times.

Today I was kidnapped by John and Kim and we went to the zoo. That, too was a lot of fun, but I was getting WAY behind on homework. After the zoo I got sucked in to watch The Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, and homework/studying still did not get done. Then, Kim went crazy and John made us go to Lowes to look at paint.

At Lowes we walked around designing our future house that we're apparently going to all live in together with the money we're going to make from our hypothetical scrapbook store we're opening one day. We already named it: Scrapin' Crap.

We then went to Applebee's (T.V. commercials really do work since we saw a commercial for it during The Puppy Bowel) where the waitress was a saint putting up with us.

All in all it was a great weekend. I will more than likely fail my Pharm quiz tomorrow...but it will be okay since it's not worth too much of my grade anyway. I need to relax more and have fun.

I did tell them that they are not allowed to kidnap me any more this quarter. Only one kidnapping a quarter, and they used it up.

I'm exhausted. So, I think I shall go for now :D

Lots Of LOs

Is There a Bird On My Head?
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I Unwrapped a Kim{ber}
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Smells Like Kitty?
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Christmas Bites
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Scooter Nooooo!
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Captain Fantastic
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Aubrey's View On Marriage
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Octopusouphut
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Rock On!
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Fast Friends
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Goodbye Caffeine
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I Spend Too Much Money on Gas!
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How I Remember You
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Now What?
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Really Quick Update

Today and tomorrow's rundowns:

~~ Had my Word Processing finale today which I think went well
~~ Almost didn't make it to my Word Processing final because of traffic. It took me 1 1/2 hours to get to school (normally takes me 20-30 minutes)
~~ Just finished Steph's Hanukkah present, which is good since she comes home tonight and tonight is the last night of Hanukkah
~~ Studying again tonight with dad
~~ Need to go over the female reproductive system diagram a few more times before tomorrow
~~ Need to plan out my answer for a question that will be on one of my finals tomorrow. The question is about Diabetes, so I think I'll be fine even if I plan very little
~~ Got my books and parking pass for next quarter today
~~ Tomorrow at 10:30 is my Anatomy final
~~ Tomorrow at 12:45ish (something like that, I'll look it up later) is my Advanced Terms final
~~ Need to write out notes to study for my Coding final
~~ Need to wrap Steph's present once it drys
~~ I REALLY want to scrap today
~~ It's too nice to be indoors all day (high of 69!! OMGWTF????) but I've got too much indoor shit to do :(
~~ I think that's it!

**EDIT** John just called and told me that he told Kathy about his name change and about the fact that he's FTM....and he didn't get fired!!! Whoooo!!!

The Spoils of My Shopping!

So, to update the Hanukkah gifts I received, Saturday I got a $30.o0 gift card to Archivers!! And yesterday I unexpectedly got a 6th gift: an iPod dock/CD player! Sweet!!

So, today, since I only had one class at 2:00, I went and did a bit of shopping. I went to Archivers and got a whole lot of stuff:

Scenic Route chipboard, Basic Grey Chipboard, Tim Holtz Grunge Board, American Craft rub-ons, 2 screenframes and 2 sheets of Love Elise PP.

Then, when I got home, I noticed my Hambly package had arrived!!!

Now I can't wait until the quarter is over (which will be Thursday!) so I can play with my new toys!!!

Oh Yeah Oh Yeah I Met The Cliks

So, first of all, if you don't know who The Cliks are...watch this:



Okay. Done? Good. On with the post.

Yesterday John and I drove to Cincinnati (a 2 hour drive) to see them in concert. Keep in mind that they were the opening act for The Cult which is a band I think I've heard of at some point, but have no desire to ever see in concert.

So, we drove for 2 hours to Cincinnati. On the way we passed through Florence, KY where John took this picture:
If you can't tell from the picture, the water tower says, "Florence Y'all" which makes John laugh every time he sees it.

Anyway, after a bit more driving we turned the corner and saw:
Very awesome sky line.

Okay, well...we went to the Kingston Mall for a bit. The John went to Half Price Books while I took a nap in the car. Then...it was on to go see THE CLIKS!!!

What we didn't know was that there was a college football game going on like 3 blocks from where the concert was. So it was very difficult to find a parking place. But we managed, and still got to Bogarts (the place it was held) early.

While we waited in line we ran into a girl named Angie who traveled from Indy to see the show. She was really awesome and fun, and drives a Mini Cooper. She won tickets to the show from The Cliks Myspace.

So, they opened the doors and let everyone in. Well, let everyone in after we were frisked. I'm not kidding. What I thought was strange was that we had to get in lines by boy or girl. So that the girl frisker would frisk the girls and the boy frisker would frisk the boys. Strange because we're going to a CLIKS concert of which the lead singer is transgender. Ah well.

We had to split from our new friend Angie 'cause she had to go pick up her tickets at the Will Call. We didn't see her after that, so we hope she got in.

Well, John and I walked around the small room for a bit. It was set up in 3 small levels. 1st level was by the bar. 2nd level was where they were selling stuff and right behind the audio guys. 3rd level was where the stage was and where you could see the bands real up close.

During the opening-opening act (some crap-ass band called Action Action) John and I stayed on the 1st level. I bought a t-shirt too. Once Action Action (or should I say "Craption-Craption") finished we went down to the 3rd level. I was eye to eye with Lucas (the lead singer). I swear to you he was looking right at me as he was singing. Or maybe that's the fan girl in me talking. :P

During the first song Morgan's drums apparently got messed up 'cause the roadies had to come out and fix them. But she kept playing, and nothing bad happened.

I'm terrible at describing concerts because I get so into them that I don't remember much when I left. All I remember was that it was like Lucas was singing just to me (fan girl) 'cause I seemed to be the only one who knew who they were and knew all the songs.

They did play one new song that I hadn't heard called "SUV" which was very awesome, and I hope it is released some time soon.

During one of the last songs Lucas mentioned that they'd be signing stuff at the table after the show. So, once the show was over John and I headed to the 2nd level and waited for them to get there. Nina was there first, and then Morgan. And then Lucas and Jen showed up. I was first in line to have them sign something...but I just froze. I couldn't move (fan girl). Finally, the 2 people behind John and I asked if we were in line...so John pushed me up to the table.

I managed to confiscate a crappy piece of brown paper into the show, so I got it out and, with a shaking hand, handed it to Lucas and said, "Can you sign this for me??" The four of them signed it, all while I started rambling about how awesome the show was and how we drove 2 hours from Louisville, KY to see them. I don't even know why I mentioned that...but that was all that came out of my mouth (fan girl).

When I told Lucas I drove 2 hours to see the show he smiled at me. (fan girl big time).

Anyway, here's a scan of the crappy brown paper they signed:

That completely made my night.

We didn't stay for The Cult. So, John and I walked back to the car and drove 2 hours home. We got home around 10:30pm. Not bad really.

So, today I woke up and had to scrap the experience:



So, that was really the night. I'm still tired...but it was SO worth it!!!

It's My Birthday RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Okay, here it is as promised:

The official, super duper, mega, ultra, crazy, over-the-top, pic-heavy birthday post!!!!!

Can you handle it?

Okay, it all started Thursday after school. Keep in mind I had a rotten day at school. I was at my wits end. But it was all going to be okay, because I was to have my therapy appointment after school.

Wrong. I got a call from the office and they said she was having a "medical procedure" done and had to reschedule.

Well, okay. So that was taken care of so after class I went to get John from U of L (where his therapy appointment is as well) and then take him home with me. He got to spend both Thursday and Friday night with me.

Thursday basically sucked however. The toilet clogged to the point that the bathtub got backed up. The whole basement smelled like shit...literally. My dad was getting angry 'cause he didn't know how to use the "snake" to fix it (that's apparently my mom's job. Who knew?) and my mom's flight from Chicago kept getting delayed until it was finally canceled. (Before it was canceled however, the latest time for it's arrival was going to be at 1:45. My dad was actually glad it got canceled so that he wouldn't have to pick her up so late.)

But, Thursday was not a total loss. That night I stayed up very late. So late in fact that I was able to watch The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson. I had never seen this show before, but The Cliks (see photo below of there awesomeness) were performing so I had to stay up to watch.I have to say that I enjoyed the show. Craig Ferguson is freaking hilarious, and reminded me a lot of Eddie Izzard. Sadly, they were on the very last bit of the show so I had to stay up for the entire show. But this also meant that they performed live on my birthday just for me :D

John and I then went to bed at nearly 2:00am. Actually, I think I just became unconscious and John got back onto the computer. Anyway, I woke up promptly at 9:00ish and let John sleep until exactly 10:00ish. Then it was off for my Birthday Adventure.

First stop was Thortons because I needed something to eat. John ran in to get me some donuts, and this is what he came back with:

As you can see these are quite literally my birthday donuts.

After that we went to the bank because John got paid and he, well, needed to go to the bank. But, this was all good for me as well since he gave me my "tangible" birthday present (he'd already gotten me a subscription to Scrapbooks Etc. but the first issue hasn't come yet...I think I'll get that in October) which was $30.00 to do with as I saw fit.

But before I could spend the money that was now burning a hole in my wallet, we had to...and I mean HAD to go get John's hair cut.

Before:


Get it? See why it needed cutting? Okay. So, here are the afters:


and:
Okay. So now that that was (finally) taken care of, it was off to Archivers where I could spend my $30.00 on scrapbook stuff! Woo Hoo!

So, when we got there, I realized that the parking lot at the mall, where Archivers is located, has the best photo-op location. So, I took more pictures of John with his new hair cut, and then he took some pictures of me:John on the rocks with no ice.

Then there are the pictures of me:Tracy on the rocks...I however, do have ice.

Okay. So, with the photo op out of the way it was into Archivers for me. I spent $20.00 of the $30.00 John gave me. I bought a bunch of rub-ons (including some new Daisy D's) and some Love Elise! stuff that I'd been wanting.

After Archivers we went to lunch at Steak and Shake (which John paid for). If I remember, that was pretty uneventful. So, after that it was to Target 'cause John needed hair stuff for his newly cut hair.

As we walked into Target this woman was walking out with her youngish son (maybe 8 years old or so). Apparently the kid wanted some toy and from what I could gather the mother had said that he had to wait until his birthday. So, the child decided to scream loudly in the parking lot, "It's my birthday RIGHT NOW!!!!" which then became my mantra for the day (as well as the title of this blog post.)

After Target we headed to Dee's Crafts, a local Scrapbook store (that also sells yarn and fake flowers in case you were wondering/cared). On the way there my iPod played Stings, "Walking on the Moon". I guess John had never heard this song before and found the lyrics amusing (as he does with most Sting songs...and rightfully so I should say). So, then, without warning he changed the lyrics to:

"Casseroles are what you bake, walking on the moon."

Which might very well be the funniest thing said the whole day. Which is why it got it's own line and was centered and bolded.

Okay, so at Dee's I managed to spend the remaining $10.00 of my birthday gift. I got 2 7gypsies self inking stamps. Very cool.

From there we went home. John took a nap and I organized all my new toys. Also, at this point, Kris called. I however, missed the call. But I listened to his message and he said, "See, I didn't forget your birthday...like I normally do." That made me smile. I called him back and we talked a bit.

Next on the birthday itinerary was dinner with my parents. We went to Rafferty's, which I chose, and was very good. Only bad thing was I left my doggy bag at the restaurant. :(

But my dad has one of those dashboards that displays the date, so I had my mom take this picture for me:
After that we went back home and just sort of chilled until 8:30 when John and I left for the Cheese Cake Factory for...what else? Cheese Cake!!

Everyone showed up, which was good. And Nic was there. Nic works with John at Target and also works as the valet at CCF.

Okay, here is where I admit that I am a terrible scrapbooker because I forgot to take ANY pictures of me with my friends while at CCF. I know, I know. Shame on me right? I didn't even take a picture of our waiter who looked just like George Michale. And I'm not talking "Wham!" George Michale. I mean NOW George Michale. Very awesome indeed. I even gave him a bit more tip because he, well, looked like George Michale.

I did, however, realize I didn't take any pictures of anyone once we left CCF and I was walking with Laura to her car so she could give me a bunch of stuff I had left at her house weeks earlier. Here are the pictures that John took of us:"Is there something in my teeth?"

And, well...that was really about it for the night.

Except for one thing:

When John and I went home, he kept trying to distract me by having me check my email. Finally I did, even though I was very tired and just wanted to go to bed. Then, suddenly, Little Thing (seen below)
came up to me (with John's help, of course) and started coughing and gagging. I looked at him and said, "What's wrong?" and then he opened his mouth. Around his tongue was my engagement ring. I slid it off his tongue and then John took it from me. He got on his knee and proposed again: a year to the day he first asked me to marry him.

He said, "You better say 'yes' or this will be very awkward." Of course I said yes and was very happy with the second proposal.

Finally I went to bed. John didn't go to bed until 4:00am, but he laid in bed with me until midnight so that I officially spent the whole day with him.

All in all it was an excellent birthday.

One finale note (and picture): When I picked John up from work Sunday morning he had another surprise for me:
A tiny cake. We ate it in fourths over 2 days. It was a very tasty tiny cake.

And thus concludes the blog update that took me over 1 hour to type because AOL is a bitch and hates to upload photos.

Good night. I am going to bed. :D

I'm A Fag Hag!!

I finished a LO last night!!! It's been so long since I got an actual LO done, that I'm just happy that I got something completed.

I don't think I can upload this to Scrapbook.com 'cause of the word "fag" being so big. But this is a very important LO for me, so I wanted to share it.

It says "I'm a FAG HAG and proud of it!" and then around the arrow it says: "They've come and gone...but they are still my boys!" On the left side of the page are all the names of all my gay guy friends over the years.

Wow...

I wanted to post this on sb.com....but I know I'll get WAY too much back lash. So I'll post it here.

Go to http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ and scroll to the last secrect of the week. They change the secrects each week on Sunday, so you have a week to look at this.

Is it sad that I looked at the postcard and said to myself, "I really like the stickers they used..."?

I'll update more later. I need to get to class soon....